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Are you living in an SMS Life Syndrome? Here is something to fuel that syndrome. Yes! a full SMS Life Dictionary!

A
AML – All my love
ASAP – As soon as possible
ATB – All the best
RUOK – Are You Okay
AYSOS – Are you stupid or Something
@TEOTD – At The End Of The Day
AAS – Alive And Smiling
AEAP – As Early As Possible
ABITHIWT – A bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush
ALOL – Actually Laughing Out Loud

B
BRB – Be right back
BTW – By the way
B4 – Before
BFN Bye For Now
BTDT – Been there done that
BAU – Business As Usual
BCOZ – Because
BHOF – Bald headed old fart
BO – Buzz off
BTOBS – Be there or be square

D
Dk – Don’t know
Dur? – Do you remember
DND – Do Not Disturb
DINK – Double Income No Kids
DIKU – Do I Know You
DIY – Do it yourself
DA – the
DWL – Dying with laughter
DUST – Did You See That?
DILLIGAD – Do I look like I give a damn?

J
J4F – Just for fun
JstCllMe – Just call Me
JAM – Just A Minute
JC – Just checking
JAS – Just a second
JIC – Just in case
JK – Just kidding
JAD – Just Another day
JM2C – Just My 2 Cents
JPYL – Just pulling your leg

L
L8r – Later
Lol – Laughing out loud
LTNC – Long time no see
LtsGt2gthr – Lets get together
LOML – Love Of My Life
LONH – Lights On, Nobody Home
LOPSOD – Long on promises, short on delivery
LDR – Long Distance Relationship
LFTI – Looking Forward To It
LIFO – Last In, First Out

N
NC – No comment
NE1 – Anyone
NWO – No way out
N/M – Nothing Much
NADT – Not A Damn Thing
NBD – No Big Deal
NICE – Nonsense In Crappy Existence
NIMY – Never In A Million Years
NMP – Not My Problem
NOYB – None Of Your Business

O
OAO – Over And Out
OATUS On – A Totally Unrelated Subject
OCD – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
ODTAA – One Damn Thing After Another
OMDB – Over My Dead Body
OMG – Oh My God
OOO – Out Of Office
O4U – Only for you
OTT – Over The Top
OOTB – Out of the box or Out of the blue

R
RUOK – Are you okay?
RBTL – Read between the lines
RMLB – Read my lips baby
RBAY – Right Back Atcha
RSN – Real Soon Now
RTBM – Read The Bloody Manual
RL – Real Life
ROTM – Right on the money
RTBS – Reason to be single

S
SWTDRMZ – Sweet Dreams
SC – Stay cool
SOL – Sooner or later
SO – Significant Other
SOB – Stressed Out Big time
SWIM – See What I Mean?
SSDD – Same Stuff Different Day
SOS – Same Old Stuff or Help!
SMS – Short Message Service
SG4IT – Search Google For It

W
W4U – Waiting for You
WDYT – What Do You Think?
WOTAM – Waste Of Time And Money
WRT – With Regard To
WTH – What the heck/hell?
WUM – Watch Your Mouth
WAEF – When All Else Fails
WFM – Works for me
WKND – Weekend
WAD – Without A Doubt

X
XclusvlyUrs – Exclusively Yours
XI10 – Exciting
XME – Excuuuuse Me

Y
YBS – You’ll be Sorry
YNK – You never know
YKW – You Know What?
YAFIYGI – You asked for it, you got it
YGIAGAM – Your guess is as good as mine
YGLT – You’re Gonna Love This
YGTI – You Get The Idea?
YGTBK – You’ve Got To Be Kidding

Numeric
1337 (written in ASCII) – From the word Leet, derived from the word elite
2 – too, or to
4 – For

A
AFAICR/S/T – As far as I can recall / remember / see / tel
AFAIK – As far as I know
AFK – Away from keyboard
ANFSCD – And Now For Something Completely Different. Used to change the subject of conversation.
ASAP – As soon as possible
ASL – Age / sex / location
ATEOTD – At The End of the Day
ATM – At the moment
AWOL – Absent Without (Official) Leave
AYBABTU (also abbreviated as AYB) – All your base are belong to us (from the video game Zero Wing)

B
B2B – Business to Business
B& and/or B7- Banned
BBIAB – Be back in a bit
BBL/S – Be back later / shortly / soon
BCNU – Be seein’ you
Blog – Also known as web log or an online journal
BOFH – ~censored~ operator from hell
Bot – Any type of automated software in chat rooms and web-cataloging software
BRB – Be right back
BSOD – Blue Screen of Death
BTDT – Been there done that
BTW – By the way
Bump – Increment (For example, C’s ++ operator.)or a acronym for “Bring Up My Post”

C
Crawl – To retrieve a web page along with the hyperlinks that reference it
Crapplet – A poorly written computer application
CU – See you (later)
CYA – See ya OR Cover Your Ass
Cyber (prefix) – A term used to connect the subsequent word loosely to the world of computers or the Internet or sex over a computer

D
DFTT – Don’t feed the trolls
DGAF – Don’t Give A F***
DIAF – Die in a fire
DILLIGAF/D/S – Does it look like I give a flip / F*** / damn / ~love~
DND – Do not disturb
DOA – Dead on arrival. Refers to hardware that is broken on delivery.

E
EOF – End Of File
EOM – End of Message
EOL – End of Life. Device or hardware, that is at the end of its life cycle.
EQ – Ever Quest
ETA – Estimated time of arrival

G
GBTW – Get back to work
GF – Great/good fight/girlfriend
GFU – Good for you
GFY – Go F*** yourself
GG – Good game, used at or near the conclusion of a gaming match
GJ – Good job, often used in online gaming when a teammate performs an act benefiting his team, such as killing an opponent or enabling that kill
GMTA – Great minds think alike
Godwin’s Law – Dictates that the longer a thread, the more likely someone will post a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler
Gratz – Congratulations
GTFO – Get the F*** out
GTG or G2G – ‘Got to go’ or ‘Good to go’
GR -Good Race
GR8 – Great

H
HAND – Have A Nice Day
Handle – Name used in online chat, (AKA nick(name), alias, screen/user name)
HF – Have fun
Haxor or H4×0r (1337) – Hacker
Hit – A request made to the web server, (noun) the results of an internet search, (verb) loading a Web page. Hits are not equivalent to visitors of a webpage.
Homepage – The website’s introduction page, starting point, and guide. The technical term is “index”
Hot list – A collection of publicly available URLs (World Wide Web site addresses), sometimes available as text files.
HTH – Hope this / that helps
H8 – Hate

I
IANAL – I am not a lawyer
IBTL – In before the lock
IDC – I don’t care
IDK – I don’t know
IIRC – If I recall / remember correctly
IIUC – If I understand correctly
IMO/IMHO/IMNSHO/IMAO – In my (humble / honest / not so humble / arrogant) opinion
Information superhighway – The Internet (AKA: I-way, Infobahn)
IONO – I don’t know
IOW – In other words
IRC – Internet Relay Chat
IRL – In real life
ITYM – I Think You Mean
IWSN – I want sex now
IYKWIM – If you know what I mean

K
k or kk – OK
KISS – Keep it simple stupid.
KS(ing) – Kill-Steal(ing)
KOS – Kill on sight
KTHX – OK, thanks
KTHXBAI or KTHXBYE – OK, thanks, goodbye, used either to cut short a conversation or to express displeasure with being cut short

L
L2P – Learn to play; an admonishment to MMORPG players who are incompetent and/or whine
L8R – Later, L8R also sometimes abbreviated as L8ER is commonly used in chat rooms and other text based communications as a way of saying good bye.
Lag – Slang term for slow Internet speeds or high Internet latency; Lag is sometimes due to a server problem, but more frequently due to the connection between client and server. A slow or intermittent connection may often be referred to as laggy
Lamer – A know-nothing, one who is lame.
Leet – Often spelled as l33t or 1337 in ASCII form. It originally meant elite
LFG – Looking for group
LFM – Looking for more
LM(F)AO – Laughing my (frigging) ass off
LMIRL – Let’s meet in real life.
LMK – Let me know
LOL – Laughing out loud, laugh out loud
LTNS – Long time no see
Lurker – Someone who frequents a Usenet group without participating in discussions

N
NE1 – “Anyone”
NFI – “No F****** Idea”
Newbie, noob, or n00b – An inexperienced user of a system or game, or an annoying person.
NIFOC – Naked In Front Of Computer
NM – (Sometimes written N/M) Not much, Never mind or no message, used on message boards or in e-mails to indicate that everything is already said in the subject line.
NP – No problem
NSFW – Not safe for work. Warning about content, may get the viewer in trouble with his employer or co-workers.
NVM, NVMD, or nm – Nevermind, not much

T
TANSTAAFL – There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch
TBF – Time between failures
TBH – To be honest
TG – That’s great
TGIF – Thank god it’s Friday
TH(N)X, TNX or TX – Thanks
TIA – Thanks in advance
TINC – There Is No Cabal, a term discouraging conspiracy theories
TMI – Too much information
TOS – Terms of service
TTBOMK – To the best of my knowledge
TTFN – Ta ta for now
TTT – To the top, used in forums to bump a thread
TTYL – Talk to you later (also spelled TTUL, T2UL or T2YL)
TTYTT – To Tell You The Truth
TW – T-Warez.com
Tweedler – One who has deep love for all computer related technology and gadgets
TWIMC – To Whom It May Concern
TY – Thank you
TYT – Take your time
TYVM – Thank you very much

U
U – You
UTFSE – Use the F****** search engine

W
w00t, w00T or WOOT – First two express exuberance, the latter is a acronym for the term “We Own the Other Team”.
W/ or W/O – With or without
WB – Welcome back
W/E – Whatever
WRT – With respect / regard to
WTB – Want to buy
WTF – What the F***
WTG – Way to go
WTH – What the hell
WTS – Want to sell
WTT – Want to trade
WUG – What you got?
WoW – World of Warcraft (game)
WUBU2 – What (have) you been up to?
WUU2 – What (are) you up to?
WYSIWYG – What you see is what you get
W8 – Wait